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sketched out

sketched out is the simple past and past participle of sketch out.

Meaning of sketch out

Verb

sketch out (third-person singular simple present sketches out, present participle sketching out, simple past and past participle sketched out)

  1. (Canada, US, informal, transitive) To creep out; to give a creepy or sketchy feeling to someone.
    • The awkward and agitated customer began to sketch them out a bit.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sketch, out.
    • I sketched out the trees and the lake before adding texture and colour to the scene.

Questions about sketched out

What is sketched out the simple past and past participle of?
Sketched out is the simple past and past participle of sketch out.

Words near sketched out in the dictionary

  1. sketchbook
  2. sketchbook-like
  3. sketchbooklike
  4. sketchbooks
  5. sketched
  6. sketched out
  7. sketcher
  8. sketchers
  9. sketches
  10. sketches out
  11. sketcheth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sketched out (page history and authors); sketch out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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